Prosecution Insights
Last updated: May 29, 2026

Southwest Research Institute

9 pending office actions • 8 art units • 9 examiners • 0 of 9 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready • 18 patents granted in the last 365 days

Portfolio Summary

9
Total Pending OAs
5
Non-Final OAs
4
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

6
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
1
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 9 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (6)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due ≤ 60 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

0
Hard (0%)
8
Medium (89%)
1
Easy (11%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§103 only7 (78%)
§102 only1 (11%)
§112 only1 (11%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

2
Life Sciences
22% of docket
0
Information Tech
0% of docket
1
Communications
11% of docket
3
Semiconductors
33% of docket
3
Mechanical / Eng
33% of docket
0
Business / Other
0% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

90 h
Manual time on pending OAs
18 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
31 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
0.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 1 44.1% +35.3%
DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 1 76.1% +17.0%
COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 1 84.2% +11.6%
MENGESHA, WEBESHET 1 47.3% +13.3%
SHUR, STEVEN JAMES 1 63.1% +34.3%
ANDREWS, BRENT J 1 78.0% +28.4%
KWOK, HELEN C 1 80.8% +6.8%
SIMMONS, CHRIS E 1 34.6% +19.5%
HASSAN, LIBAN M 1 50.1% +30.8%

Quick Wins (2)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 2 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17524589 GUIDED WAVE TESTING OF WELDS IN PIPELINES AND PLATE STRUCTURES KWOK, HELEN C 3d overdue
18394171 Homography Generation for Traffic Monitoring System COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 60d

Interview Candidates (8)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
17301625 THREE-DIMENSIONAL BIOREACTOR FOR VIRAL VECTOR PRODUCTION HASSAN, LIBAN M 72d overdue
18367225 Unmanned Aerial Payload Delivery System SHUR, STEVEN JAMES 46d overdue
18545358 Heated Work-Extraction Mechanism for a Cryogenic-Based Carbon Dioxide Capture System MENGESHA, WEBESHET 31d overdue
18581320 Apparatus and Method to Detect Residual Stress Around Cold Expanded Holes Using Longitudinal Critically Refracted Waves DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 28d overdue
17728225 Detection of Corrosion Under Paint and Other Coatings Using Microwave Reflectometry ANDREWS, BRENT J 4d overdue
17387129 INHIBITION OF MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN SIMMONS, CHRIS E 8d
18394171 Homography Generation for Traffic Monitoring System COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 60d
18661192 COORDINATED MOTION OF A MANIPULATOR AND MOBILE BASE HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 70d

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
2855 2
3658 1
2675 1
3763 1
3647 1
2858 1
1622 1
1799 1

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18661192 COORDINATED MOTION OF A MANIPULATOR AND MOBILE BASE HOQUE, SHAHEDA SHABNAM 3658 §103 Final Rejection 70d Pending May 10, 2024
18581320 Apparatus and Method to Detect Residual Stress Around Cold Expanded Holes Using Longitudinal Critically Refracted Waves DUNLAP, JONATHAN M 2855 §102 Non-Final OA 28d overdue Pending Feb 19, 2024
18394171 Homography Generation for Traffic Monitoring System COLEMAN, STEPHEN P 2675 §103 Final Rejection 60d Pending Dec 22, 2023
18545358 Heated Work-Extraction Mechanism for a Cryogenic-Based Carbon Dioxide Capture System MENGESHA, WEBESHET 3763 §103 Non-Final OA 31d overdue Pending Dec 19, 2023
18367225 Unmanned Aerial Payload Delivery System SHUR, STEVEN JAMES 3647 §103 Non-Final OA 46d overdue Pending Sep 12, 2023
17728225 Detection of Corrosion Under Paint and Other Coatings Using Microwave Reflectometry ANDREWS, BRENT J 2858 §112 Non-Final OA 4d overdue Pending Apr 25, 2022
17524589 GUIDED WAVE TESTING OF WELDS IN PIPELINES AND PLATE STRUCTURES KWOK, HELEN C 2855 §103 Non-Final OA 3d overdue Pending Nov 11, 2021
17387129 INHIBITION OF MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN SIMMONS, CHRIS E 1622 §103 Final Rejection 8d Pending Jul 28, 2021
17301625 THREE-DIMENSIONAL BIOREACTOR FOR VIRAL VECTOR PRODUCTION HASSAN, LIBAN M 1799 §103 Final Rejection 72d overdue Pending Apr 09, 2021

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